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The Radnor Township Board of Commissioners met on October 13, 2026, as specified, though the provided agenda and transcript list the date as Monday, October 12, 2026. The meeting featured a presentation on the 2026 leaf season, extensive public comment on the "Vision for Wayne" Downtown Master Plan, the formal acceptance of the plan, and actions on stormwater bonds, EMS equipment, and other administrative items.
Good evening. I would like to call to order the Board of Commissioners meeting this Monday, October 12th at 6 45 p.m. Well, everyone please stand. I followed it in the United States of America. Thank you. And I'd like to give notice we had an executive session just prior to this meeting where we discuss legal and real estate matters. We're going to start off with a presentation. Mr. Foster. Good evening, Commissioners. Thank you for your time. I also want to say thank you to uh the township staff and also all of the Radna residents that are here in person and those who are listening at home. So leave season, Radner Township is starting. In about three weeks, you'll see all the vacuums, the loaders uh going up and down the blocks through the neighborhood. So we're just gonna give a little update. Um, not that much has changed um in what we do because it's been successful. So we're not gonna upset anything. But everything that we're gonna talk about tonight, you can find on the Radner Township website. So when you go on the website, if you go under public works, and when you once you open up public works on the left hand side, it will say 2026 leaf season. So that's where you'll find all the information that we're talking about tonight. Um in case anything uh slips your mind that I may mention. So again, leaf season is gonna run through November 2nd, uh Monday through December 18th, Friday. And these are some of the things that we've uh found to be successful. So our leaf uh collection is done in three districts, and each of those districts get two uh pickups or collections. Now, what we'll do, we'll spend a week in each district, and as long as the weather um allows us to continue to move uh quickly, we'll be in one district and then go to the next. Um and this collection schedule that we have at the end of every day, uh the highway supervisor then goes in and updates the website so each person on every street can see where we were and you know what streets or what neighborhoods are left to be uh collected. Um here are the resources that we have at our disposal. So in order for us to get done by that December 18th date, um we're gonna suspend our yard waste collection program. This is something that we've done um for the past five years and it's been successful, but this is only during the month of December. And the reason why we picked December is because that's usually when the trees there's a lot more down. Um so we can use need a lot more staff. And that last bullet point there that you see, um, what we'll do is we'll take 15 of the 22 uh sanitation workers and we'll put them with us, the rest of the staff on Mondays. So that's why the yard waste won't be happening. But all through November we will be collecting, and that suspension will be reinstated on Monday, January 4th of 2027. Now, also what we found to be successful is that Thanksgiving week that we have, those three days, if you look on the schedule, they're not assigned to go anywhere on those three days. And the reason why we did that is because if we're behind, um it allows us to go anywhere we need to go throughout the township. So we use those three days kind of to bounce around and see some trouble areas, maybe some areas have some huge leaf piles, and it allows us to get those collected. And then our final point or our other collection point that we have a resource is the youth Saturdays. Now, sometime we use them uh for the past couple years, we've probably used maybe uh two Saturdays of leaf season, so it's not really something as long as the weather uh cooperates that we have to use. Now here's just a a bunch of bullet points that we need the residents to help us out with when it comes to compliance because it makes our job easier. So I'm not gonna go through all of them because again they're on the township website, so everybody can see what they are. But it's just uh basic principles that we would like the residents to help us out with with not to park on any piles, uh keep the leaf piles about four or five inches away from the curb so the water we do get every any heavy rains, um, it'll be able to flow down and get to the inlets. Um we also ask that if you are going to have a leaf collection or when that happens, we ask that you not put it out more than seven days in advance. So we're coming that beginning of the week. We ask that it's out by seven o'clock. Um and let's be serious.